Br. Quintinian

Thomas McDonald Meade was born on January 1, 1845 at Bonagher, Dublin, Ireland. His family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City where Thomas attended Annunciation School, taught by the Brothers. At age seventeen he entered the Novitiate at Montreal and received the habit and religious name of Brother Quintinian on November 1, 1860. He returned to teach at Assumption Academy. His early tour of duty includes teaching assignments at Utica and Albany, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and at Manhattan Academy in New York. In 1882 he was appointed secretary to the Assistant, Brother Patrick, but returned to the US in 1884 as Auxiliary Visitor of New York. Brother Quintinian was appointed Visitor of the Baltimore District in 1888. He opened St. Francis' Industrial School in Eddington, built the new Calvert Hall at Baltimore, and purchased the Drury Estate at Ammendale. In 1890 he was assigned to Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Principal and Director. He was appointed Visitor of the New York District from 1891 to 1899 when he was summoned to Europe during the period of the Latin Question and there taught English at Malonne, Belgium and at Rheims, France. In 1902 he was released and returned as Director of the Philadelphia Catholic Protectory where he remained for the next twelve years. He died at age sixty-nine, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-two years.